Here's the First Teaser for the New 'X-Files'

The other footage is out there.

Over nine seasons, The X-Files brought tales of alien abductions, vengeful ghosts, weird mutants, and backwoods monsters (or inbred brothers) to primetime TV, becoming a huge cult success in the process. The series is returning in January, in case you haven't seen that in a million places. And now we have our first look at the new footage.

It comes after a bunch of old footage, and is a little bit "blink and you miss it." The trademark "scenes so dark it breaks your screen contrast" are back, as we see Mulder and Scully, guns and Maglights drawn, pop into a potential crime scene. There's also Mulder facing down UFOs in a warehouse, and hear that for the protagonists, the "truth is in there."

There's more news sandwiched in there too, like FOX's campaign to have fans watch all 201 episodes, one episode per day, leading up to the January premier. That kicks off tonight, with the pilot episode, if you want to play at home, and will take you all the way to the end—right in time for the six-episode revival that will (probably) leave fans screaming for more.

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